The New England News Collaborative is telling stories of our connected and rapidly changing region.
The NENC is a 9-station consortium of public media newsrooms reporting stories that are shared and broadcast across New England. Our multimedia coverage delves into climate change and clean energy; racial inequality and immigration; and the impacts of the pandemic on people, businesses and schools in the region.
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On the second day of a student encampment on the University of Vermont campus, more than a hundred students and community members gathered to protest against the school’s upcoming commencement speaker, who vetoed U.N. resolutions calling for a Gaza ceasefire. The cancellation is one of five demands made by the group Students for Justice in Palestine.
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Legislators in the Massachusetts House passed a bill, among hundreds attached in amendments to the budget, aimed at disclosing the use of artificial intelligence in political messages.
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Forty tents set up on-campus Monday by University of Massachusetts Amherst students protesting the war in Gaza and the school's financial ties to Israeli companies have been taken down. Their protest continues.
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Under current law, only initial screenings were required to be covered by insurance. But starting in 2026, additional rounds of imaging will be covered.
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Similar protests have been held at college campuses across the country. Locally, protests have taken place at UConn and Yale University. Elsewhere, protests have happened on campuses from Massachusetts to Texas to California.
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The first tents went up at the University of Vermont Sunday afternoon. An outdoor Passover seder was held that evening. Students at Middlebury College also erected tents Sunday.
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Club founder says "Hearts of Pine" is inspired by the Portland Valentine Bandit and the Maine state tree.
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Students at several colleges and universities across Connecticut are now doing what will guarantee getting a TV news camera in their face: protesting on campus to support Palestinians. But many are not willing to speak on the record using their full names — or speak to the media altogether.
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The UNH Palestinian Solidarity Coalition, joined by some area residents, held a protest Thursday demanding the school to divest any money its endowment has in Israel.
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The institute, its partners and others in the sustainability industry see the practice — dubbed “peecycling” — as a cheap, easy and less-destructive method than synthetic fertilizer.